VERY fast and simple hex-and-counter postcard size/format boardgame about the December 1944 German Ardennes counteroffensive, using my previous, popular little Ardennes Petite map which I discovered fits *perfectly* on a postcard. 5 2-day turns. Plays in 30? minutes. As for Postcard Barbarossa 24 units/pieces. 10 German and 14 American. (There just wasn't...
Postcard Civil War East is a little postcard size/format Strategic level board-wargame about the American Civil War in the East to mail/give to family & friends. 6 turns per year, 1861-65, but just a single year's campaign can be played. 7 Union and 5 Confederate pieces. Lots of Fog of War, Jackson's Foot Cavalry II Corps while it lasts, etc. A one-year...
Micro game necessitated by postcard format. 11 day and night turns. SECRET Allied code-breaking possibility to get Yorktown as well as Lexington fleet carriers. Neat Port Moresby landing rule: number of surviving (of 11) Japanese transports plus UnDamaged shore-bombarding Japanese cruiser units roll 2 dice to see if they take it. Battle can continue in...
Small - 11 Allied vs. 7 German units - hex-and-counter northwest Europe 1944-45 campaign game starting with D-Day, using the factor differential plus Special Factor system of Postcard Barbarossa! and (Banner of War's beautiful edition of that,) Unternehmen Barbarossa - possible Pressed Attack *and* Desperate (No Retreat!) Defense - which makes it...
Postcard from the Revolution is an attempt to make a very small war game that plays like a war game and not an abstract strategy game. As its name suggests, Postcard from the Revolution is a post card that includes the board, counters, rules and historical background of a single battle from the American Revolution. Plus, it is perfectly legal to send...
A couple weeks ago my 11 year old daughter beat me in this in a typical last-minute cliff-hanger game. The game is so unpredictable - all the chances are 50% die rolls or coin tosses - it is ideal for solitaire play too. 8 half-month turns for U.S. or Japan to take and keep Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. 2 battleship, 2 cruiser - a 3rd for U.S. if/when 1 is...
Postcard Kursk is a fast, simple, but decision-demanding little hex-and-counter board-wargame about the 5th July 1943 Operation Citadel German Offensive. Hitler and his generals had misgivings about but prosecuted anyway, to catastrophic losses which decisively weakened the German Wehrmacht and then enabled the Russians to sweep all the way to the Dnieper...
Postcard Midway is a lightspeed fast, simple little Battle of Midway postcard wargame. Although it shows 16 turns, early destruction of the Japanese Kido Butai carrier striking force can decide the game in the first 4, as historically. Fog of War has been fully worked in: the US has only a 50% codebreaking chance (of setting up a Point Luck or wherever...
Free print and play brigade to division level game about Jubal Early's sudden out of nowhere surprise attack on Washington DC, down the *eastern* side of the Potomac River. Fords along the Monocacy River to be discovered. Bridges can be burned - across the Potomac terminally. Historical forts are present as well as a tiny but thin/tall President Lincoln...
An operational level game in postcard size/format, of the August 7-13 1944 German counter-offensive trying to break through Mortain and neighboring towns (down in "Normandy's Switzerland") to get westward to Avranches on the sea to cut off supplies and units to Patton's 3rd Army pouring through it into Brittany and the rest of France. 6 divisions on each...
VERY simple little diminuation of Murmansk Run: Arctic Convoys to Russia, triggered by the Norwegian film KONVOI to be released in the US as The Arctic Convoy. The star of the film, SS Hestmanden/Horseman exists, docked down at Norway's Merchant Sailors' Museum in Løvika near Kristiansand. Can be played solitaire by random contact/combat selection of the...
Myitkyina was a prolonged torturous affair, but vital to the re-opening of the Ledo/Burma Road to supply our beleaguered Chinese allies. After an end-around to the north over/through a high mountain ridge, Chinese divisions and our Merrill's Marauders - 5307th Infantry Regiment - descended on the town and its airfield from the north to the surprise - shock...